The provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions are the subject of this analysis.  The bill would amend various codes as they relate to locations where certain sex offenders are permitted to work or reside. The bill would define "child safety zone" as various locations where children commonly gather and prohibit certain registered sex offenders from working, residing, or going in, on, or within a child safety zone. For persons subject to the bill's provisions, the offense of failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements would be punished as a third degree felony if the failure to comply involves violating child safety zone requirements.

The bill's provisions would apply to sex offenders convicted of sexually violent crimes against a victim of 17 years of age or younger. Failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements is currently punishable at various felony levels, depending on the circumstances of the offense. For certain sex offenders whose duty to register is due to a conviction for a sexually violent crime, violation of sex offender registration requirements is currently punishable as a third degree felony or second degree felony, depending on certain circumstances. Therefore, this analysis assumes the bill's provisions would not result in a significant impact on state correctional populations, programs, or workloads.